Earlier this week Nintendo announced that they were following up on their hugely successful NES Classic Mini Edition with a new SNES Classic Mini, a pint-sized version of the iconic Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Nintendo is selling the unit for £69.99 (available for pre-order now) ahead of a September 29, 2017 release date, making it easily a contender for the hottest Christmas product with a little under six months to go until Santa starts delivering presents.

As fans might already know by now, it comes pre-loaded with 21 excellent games from the SNES era, including classics like Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

On top of this, Nintendo has also remarkably included the likes of EarthBound, which was never released in the UK as well as Star Fox 2, which has never been released to this day.

Like the NES Classic Mini, stock of the new mini SNES has been tremendously hard to come by.

Argos, Amazon, GAME, Toys R Us, Smyths, Very.co.uk and Nintendo's own UK shop have already sold out of their stock in less than a week.

Though, it's possible more could become available in the upcoming days, so it's worth keeping an eye on sites and social media like a hawk.

Other UK stores, such as Tesco, John Lewis and Currys have yet to release any pre-order pages for the new Nintendo product, but could likely go live next week.

Nintendo, to their credit, has said that it plans to ship more SNES Classics consoles than the NES Classic, but, only for this year.

SNES Classic Mini - Full list of 21 games included in Super Nintendo Classic Mini

The SNES Classic Mini has been announced. Here is the full list of games coming to the Super Nintendo Classic Mini.

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When asked by Kotaku about SNES stock levels, Nintendo said:

"We aren’t providing specific numbers, but we will produce significantly more units of Super NES Classic Edition than we did of NES Classic Edition.

"Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Super NES Classic Edition is currently planned to ship from Sept. 29 until the end of calendar year 2017. At this time, we have nothing to announce regarding any possible shipments beyond this year.

"Our long-term efforts are focused on delivering great games for the Nintendo Switch system and continuing to build momentum for that platform, as well as serving the more than 63 million owners of Nintendo 3DS family systems.

The SNES Classic Mini also comes bundled with two controllers and inside the box owners will also find an HDMI cable.

Interestingly it's been mentioned by Kotaku news editor, Jason Schreier that the SNES Classic Controller cable will be five feet long, which might not sound like a big deal, but compared to the NES Classic mini it's a pretty important feature.

The NES Classic Controller was only three feet and was one of the primary complaints of the NES Classic Mini as users were basically forced into sitting right in front of their TV screens.

SNES CLASSIC MINI GAMES LIST

Here's a rundown of the 21 games available on the Super Nintendo Classic Mini: